What shipped

Applications

• Stage builder. Multi-stage forms with 11 field types and conditional "show when" logic.
• Attached resources. Guidance documents and links attached to any stage or field.
• Registration windows and capacity. Open/close dates and submission caps enforced per programme.
• Versioning with restore. Form changes are versioned, with preview and rollback.
• Drafts and resume. Server-side drafts, a public link, and direct pitch-deck uploads.

Review

• Submissions table. Case numbers, filters, and flags for resubmissions and duplicates.
• Dossier view. A single-application view with notes, tags and @mentions.
• Decisions with reasons. Approve, reject, undo and reopen, each with a recorded reason.
• Bulk actions and export. Bulk decisions, an Excel export, and a full audit log.

Evaluation

• Evaluator invites and workload. Auto-assignment by expertise, with conflict-of-interest declarations.
• Deadlines and blind review. Reminders, deadlines and an optional blind-review mode.
• Rubrics with calibration. Weighted rubrics, draft/submit scoring, and z-score calibration across evaluators.
• Multi-round pipelines. Per-round rubrics with promotion between rounds.
• Leaderboard. Human, AI and blended leaderboard views.

IdeaScore AI

• Grounded research per application. Live web research with cited sources: market, competitors, IP, mentor credibility, policy alignment.
• Pitch-deck extraction. Structured extraction from uploaded decks.
• Pre-screening. Rule-based and AI checks for completeness and duplicates.
• Summaries and benchmarking. Reviewer summaries and cohort benchmarking, with a request log and staleness flags.

Pitch day

• Live session control. Start, pause and advance a pitch schedule with a timer.
• Projector board. Live standings on a projector-ready board.

Reports

• Funnel and mix reports. Funnel, sector/TRL mix, evaluator throughput and AI coverage.
• Committee report. Committee-ready .xlsx and .html exports, plus scheduled email reports.
• Public results page. A shareable public results page per programme.

Portfolio

• Incubatee tracking. Companies from winning teams, with milestones and approval-tracked requests.
• Mentors and analytics. Mentor assignment, session logs and portfolio analytics.

Applicant portal

• Magic-link sign-in. Passwordless sign-in with a status timeline.
• Edit and withdraw. Edit an application before deadline, or withdraw it.

Platform

• Multi-tenant console. Organisations, plans, feature flags and subscriptions from one console.
• White-label branding. Logo, colours and login copy per organisation, in light and dark mode.
• Access and audit. Role-based access, session lockout, re-authentication for sensitive edits, backups and an audit trail.

Deployment

• Cloud or self-hosted. Run on IdeaScore's cloud, or self-host on Docker or Apache and PM2.